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- Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:53 pm
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: If you cannot love an eternal torment god
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45449
Re: If you cannot love an eternal torment god
My (hypothetically dual) soul didn't exist for the billions of years prior to my conception, so why is it immune to oblivion after my death? Because the linearity of time is an illusion: per Einstein, if you want a source for that. So... My (again, hypothetically dual) soul also existed for all of ...
- Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:53 am
- Forum: Theology/Bible
- Topic: If you cannot love an eternal torment god
- Replies: 32
- Views: 45449
Re: If you cannot love an eternal torment god
My (hypothetically dual) soul didn't exist for the billions of years prior to my conception, so why is it immune to oblivion after my death?Theognosis wrote:I think the cessation of existence of souls is impossible.
- Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:58 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: how can atheist live with themselves?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 28578
Re: how can atheist live with themselves?
On the PZ Myers blog post, he's been flooded with hate mail from Catholics for his cracker post. They've even flooded the mailbox of his university's president demanding that he dismiss Myers. I must admit to being a regular reader of Pharyngula. The feed is in my RSS reader, so I get all his posts ...
- Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:44 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: how can atheist live with themselves?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 28578
Re: how can atheist live with themselves?
There are definitely atheists that get on my nerves, but that particular thread really didn't bother me all that much. Their argument is nothing but a silly parody of religion. They're not being any more serious about their argument than Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. There's really not much point i...
- Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:54 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Science has disproved religion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 64156
Re: Science has disproved religion
No, that's not what I'm talking about, Antimatter-- and if you yourself have not felt it, I'm really not sure how to explain it. It's sort of beyond explanation. It isn't an emotion, though emotions (like awe) result from it. It's more an awareness. And it isn't self-reflection at all. In fact, the...
- Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:48 pm
- Forum: City of God in Secular City
- Topic: skynet
- Replies: 41
- Views: 52812
Re: skynet
Oh, I misjudged the timing of your post. Yeah, the grass photo seemed a bit bland to me.Metacrock wrote:I liked that other avator but I like this one too.
- Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:19 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Belief without Arguments attempt 2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18640
Re: Belief without Arguments attempt 2
The more I read your musings on god, Meta, the more I feel like we're really talking about the same thing but using very different terminology. Outside your essays on Jesus Christ, you rarely ascribe characteristics like intelligence or compassion to god. Instead you describe god as simply the "grou...
- Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:30 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Science has disproved religion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 64156
Re: Science has disproved religion
Okay, but you're quite mistaken if you think there is such a theory....anywhere. Propositions rest on propositions, even implicit ones, and there are one of two possible scenarios for the set of the fewest propositions for an explanation of reality: arbitrary limit or infinite set. An arbitrary lim...
- Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:14 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Science has disproved religion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 64156
Re: Science has disproved religion
But you see, I think random evolution is too simple. Random evolutionary processes, and emergence, could (possibly) explain how such a complexity as humanity arose, but it doesn't explain why we sense the numinous. I think that, using Occam's Razor, the most natural, simple and elegant explanation ...
- Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:06 pm
- Forum: City of God in Secular City
- Topic: skynet
- Replies: 41
- Views: 52812
Re: skynet
Yeah, I couldn't find any pictures of antimatter... So I settled for the Cat's Eye Nebula!Metacrock wrote:true, hey I like the new avatar.